Murmur
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Murmur usually means:
It can also refer to:
mumble, whisper, murmur
- Murmur (speech), a soft-sounded and quiet utterance/talking "under your breath" so it is hard to understand what the speaker is saying
- Breathy voiceBreathy voiceBreathy voice is a phonation in which the vocal cords vibrate, as they do in normal voicing, but are held further apart, so that a larger volume of air escapes between them. This produces an audible noise...
, a type of phonation in speech
It can also refer to:
Medical
- Heart murmurHeart murmurMurmurs are extra heart sounds that are produced as a result of turbulent blood flow that is sufficient to produce audible noise. Most murmurs can only be heard with the assistance of a stethoscope ....
, an abnormal heart sound - Vascular murmur, an abnormal vascular sound
Music
- Murmur (album)Murmur (album)Murmur is the debut album by the American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1983 on I.R.S. Records. Murmur drew critical acclaim upon its release for its sound, defined by singer Michael Stipe's cryptic lyrics, guitarist Peter Buck's jangly guitar style, and bassist Mike Mills' melodic...
, a 1983 R.E.M. album - Murmur (band)Murmur (band)Murmur is an acoustic drone ensemble from New Orleans who play tone/space improvisations based on a single note. Originally founded by minimalist sound artist potpie and recording on the Backporch Revolution label, the membership changes with each performance/recording and has contained anywhere...
, an acoustic drone group from New Orleans that records on the Backporch Revolution label - Mürmür (band)Murmur (band)Murmur is an acoustic drone ensemble from New Orleans who play tone/space improvisations based on a single note. Originally founded by minimalist sound artist potpie and recording on the Backporch Revolution label, the membership changes with each performance/recording and has contained anywhere...
, a pop band from VeronaVeronaVerona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...
, Italy - Murmur EPMurmur EPMurmur is second EP from The Sight Below, released on October 27, 2009. It contains two new songs and three remixes of other The Sight Below songs by Eluvium, Simon Scott, and iconic Norwegian ambient producer Biosphere.-Track listing:#Murmur - 6:37 #Wishing Me Asleep - 6:23 #The Sunset Passage ...
, a 2009 EP by The Sight Below - Murmur (record label)Murmur (record label)Murmur was a record label that started as an imprint of Sony Music Australia in mid 1994. Named after REM's first album, Murmur signed a number of Australia's most successful rock bands, including Silverchair, Ammonia, Something for Kate and Jebediah...
, an imprint of Sony Music Australia - Murmur, a 2007 album by Yoko ShimomuraYoko Shimomurais a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as "the most famous female video game music composer in the world". She has worked in the video game music industry since graduating from Osaka College of Music in 1988...
- "Murmur", a song by John Frusciante from the 2001 album From the Sounds InsideFrom the Sounds InsideFrom the Sounds Inside is a digital-only album by John Frusciante, released exclusively through the internet in 2001. The album was free to download from his official website and includes material recorded during the To Record Only Water for Ten Days era of his solo career, most of which remained...
Character
- Murmur (DC Comics)Murmur (DC Comics)Murmur is a supervillain in the DC Comics universe. He is one of the new Rogues to threaten the Flash, first appearing in the prestige format one-shot The Flash: Iron Heights .-Fictional character biography:...
, a supervillain from The Flash comic book - Murmur (Marvel Comics)Murmur (Marvel Comics)- Murmur :Murmur is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe who first appearance was in Generation X #11.- Fictional character biography :...
, a superhero from the group Alpha Flight - Murmur (demon), a Great Duke and Earl of Hell
- Murmur, a character in the game Hellgate
- Murmur, a boss in the game World of WarcraftWorld of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...
- James "Murmur" Zancone, a character in The Sopranos (played by Lenny Venito), a minor character in the manga and anime series Future Diary, named after the aforementioned demon
Computing
- Murmur, the corresponding server to the communication software Mumble (software)
- MurmurHashMurmurHashMurmurHash is a non-cryptographic hash function suitable for general hash-based lookup. It was created by Austin Appleby in 2008, and exists in a number of variants, all of which have been released into the public domain.-Variants:...
, a non-cryptographic hash functionHash functionA hash function is any algorithm or subroutine that maps large data sets to smaller data sets, called keys. For example, a single integer can serve as an index to an array...
Other uses
- Murmur (placoderm), a genus of placoderms
mumble, whisper, murmur